About me
Lori D. Ginzberg is Professor Emeritus of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of nineteenth-century American women with a particular interest in the intersections between intellectual and social history, her research has focused on the ways that ideologies about gender obscure the material and ideological realities of class, how women of different groups express political identities, and the ways that commonsense notions of American life shape, contain, and control radical ideas. She has written several books, including Tangled Journeys: One Family's Story and the Making of American History (UNC Press, 2024), Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009) and Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York (UNC Press, 2005). She has taught in Penn State’s departments of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies since 1987, serving as WGSS graduate officer and as the faculty advisor for numerous Ph.D. students.